Variety

Kamila Andini Says Anger Is ‘Liberating’ as She Brings Furious ‘Four Seasons in Java’ to Toronto

Kamila Andini’s “Four Seasons in Java” is her fifth feature film, but this marks her third time at the Toronto Film Festival after “The Seen and the Unseen” (2017) and “Yuni” (2021) that won the Platform Prize and became Indonesia’s official Oscar entry.  It follows Pertiwi, starring Putri Marino (“Cigarette Girl”), who comes back to […]

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Variety

Box Office: ‘Practical Magic 2’ Conjures Up $13 Million on Friday as ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Nears All-Time Domestic Box Office Record

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” will finally be dethroned after a six-week streak at No. 1, falling to Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman’s mystical sequel, “Practical Magic 2.” “Practical Magic 2” landed at No. 1 on Friday, making $13 million at 4,146 North American screens. By Sunday, the Warner Bros. dramedy should pull in around $30 […]

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The Guardian Culture

Film producer Jeremy Thomas was a cross between a kindly Cambridge don and the movie world’s cool uncle

The man behind The Last Emperor had the confidence of an old-fashioned studio boss along with the soul of a cineasteTo say that movie producer Jeremy Thomas was British cinema royalty did not quite do justice to his meritocratic, democratic instincts. A brilliant and inexhaustibly creative man, self-effacingly charming and quietly spoken in a world of loudmouths and show-offs, and hypervigilant for new talent, was more like a cross between an entrepreneur, an enigmatically clever and kindly Camb

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Variety

Jorge Alonso’s Spanish Romance Drama ‘All That We Never Were’ Sells to France and India (EXCLUSIVE)

Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has closed deals announced at the Toronto Film Festival for Spanish romantic drama “All That We Never Were” (“Todo lo que nunca fuimos”). Based on the best-selling novel by Alice Kellen, the film sold to Swift for France and French-speaking territories and to MVP for India and the Indian subcontinent. A further […]

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Variety

‘Boatbuilders’ Review: A Mellow Maine Boatyard Study That Offers All the Quiet Rewards of Fine Craftsmanship in Action

There are few things as calmingly enjoyable as the modest, closeup spectacle of an expert craftsman at work. Whether the trade is cooking or carpentry, watching them ply their trade with equal parts ease and intense concentration is both gratifyingly instructional and escapist: a hands-off education in something you’ll never be able to do as […]

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Variety

Filmax Launches Mar Olid’s ‘The Wedding Hustlers’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Filmax is launching Mar Olid’s romantic comedy “The Wedding Hustlers” (“Si te he visto no me acuerdo”) internationally with a first promo for buyers at TIFF, ahead of its Spanish theatrical release in 2027. The film is produced by Filmax, Bixagu Entertainment and Pompón AIE, with the participation of paybox Movistar Plus, pubcaster RTVE and […]

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Variety

Toronto Title ‘Sisters,’ Starring Spain’s Elena Anaya and Emma Suarez, Forces a Family to Visit Fears and Taboos

“Sisters” (“Hermanas”) will have its world premiere in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival, running September 10-20. Written and directed by Ione Hernández Sáenz (“1% Schizophrenia”) and starring Elena Anaya (“The Skin I Live In,” “Room in Rome”) and Emma Suárez (“Julieta,” “The Next Skin”), the Spanish film is an intergenerational family […]

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Variety

Antonio Banderas, Trudie Styler and Eva Birthistle on the Sorrow and Joy of TIFF Medical Dramedy ‘Up Against It’

When it comes to “Up Against It,” a TIFF title premiering Sept. 12, director Trudie Styler says, “I know this story like the back of my hand.” She means that doubly. Not merely had she been mulling whether or not to take on the screenplay for years, and participated in workshopping it (including changing its […]

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Variety

Menswear Designer Todd Snyder on His Brand’s 15th Anniversary and Having Ryan Gosling and Matt Bomer as His First Celebrity Customers

Fashion designer Todd Snyder remembers the first time he learned a celebrity was a fan of his work. It was 2013, just two years after he launched his eponymous menswear brand following career-making turns at Ralph Lauren, Gap Inc. and J. Crew. “We were all sitting there together because it was maybe only five of […]

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Hollywood Reporter

In ‘Magazine’, Director Alexandra Pechman Brings a Bygone Era of Print Media (and the 2010s) to TIFF Audiences

A veteran of 'Vogue’ and other glossies, the filmmaker talks about the joys and tumults of publishing and how the pre-iPhone era is appealing to Zoomer watchers.

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Back to Buenos Aires’ Review: A Brooding Drama Revisits the Violent Days of Argentina’s Dictatorship, and the Traumas That Remained in Its Wake

Director Marco Bechis drew from his experience as a survivor of the 1976 military coup for this story of a political prisoner who returns to the place of his torment 30 years later.

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Hollywood Reporter

Ben Silverman, Micah Green Back New Platform for Jewish Filmmakers

SHOOQ launches to connect Jewish storytellers with investors and philanthropists, aiming to pool resources rather than compete for scarce funding.

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Smudge the Blades’ Isn’t Your ‘Heated Rivalry’-Style Canadian Hockey Drama

Cody Lightning’s feature film is all business on the ice — an underdog dramedy about a struggling Indigenous team fighting racism outside the rink.

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The Guardian Culture

‘I could get laid every night of the week!’: punk icon Legs McNeil on booze, benders and dating Sinéad O’Connor

As he releases a tell-all book, the Punk magazine founder and self-described ‘fuck-up’ holds forth on 1970s excess, the American roots of punk and why the Beatles are ‘stupid’Legs McNeil vividly remembers the reaction he got from the original CBGB bands in 1975 when they heard the name of the magazine he co-founded: Punk, the first publication ever dedicated to the form. “Absolutely no one wanted to be called a punk back then,” he said. “Not even the Ramones. Johnny Ramone demanded that we cross

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Variety

Sarah Paulson Has Waited Forever for a Movie Like ‘Closing Night’: ‘I Wasn’t This Hot, Young Nubile Thing’

It didn’t make sense. For her spellbinding portrait of Marcia Clark in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” Sarah Paulson had won every major award —the first actor in history to do so — but the film offers never came. To add insult to injury, she watched her scene partners, Courtney B. Vance […]

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Club Kid’, ‘Wicker’ Producer on Cannes Sales and When Ikea Gets In on Your Trailer Launch: “Sometimes the Internet Just Does Its Job”

With both 'Club Kid‘ and ‘The Debut‘ set to screen at TIFF, Ryan Heller talks Topic Studios’ big year, including 'Wicker’s unexpected Internet virality.

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Hollywood Reporter

‘The Family Stone’ Sequel Sets Returning Cast With Sarah Jessica Parker, Rachel McAdams, Luke Wilson and More

The follow-up, titled 'The Families Stone,' picks up 20 years after the events of the 2005 holiday classic.

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Variety

‘Family Stone 2’ Gets Official Title ‘The Families Stone’ and Sets Cast: Rachel McAdams, Sarah Jessica Parker and More Returning

Searchlight has officially announced “The Family Stone 2,” a sequel to the 2005 holiday classic from returning writer and director Tom Bezucha. The follow-up is officially titled “The Families Stones” and will feature the returns of many of the original’s main cast members, including Rachel McAdams as Amy Stone and Sarah Jessica Parker as Meredith […]

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Variety

Taiwan Strengthens Global Co-Production Presence at Toronto Film Festival With ‘Happily Ever After,’ ‘The Age of Goodbyes’ and ‘Arrested Memory‘

A strong lineup from Taiwan hits the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, with two world premieres in the special presentations strand, a Taiwan-Japan genre title in Midnight Madness, virtual reality, market projects and an international Oscar contender. Feng-I Fiona Roan’s “Happily Ever After” will make its world premiere in special presentations. The film is Roan’s sophomore […]

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Variety

Nishikawa Miwa Confronts Japan’s Failure to Protect Its War Orphans in Toronto Platform Opener ‘Children Untold’

In the rubble left by the firebombing of Tokyo in WWII, a 12-year-old girl who once dreamed of a life in music learns to shine shoes, fall in with a band of orphaned boys sheltering under a local yakuza clan and, eventually, erase every trace of the person she used to be. That girl, Kotoko, […]

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